Table 11.7

Patients and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk, 1994 to 2002

Rates for Recipients in First Year after Heart Transplants

Ethnicity		Year of Transplant
		1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Total	Patients	2,318	2,346	2,318	2,267	2,310	2,157	2,167	2,171	2,112
	Deaths	374	368	346	343	341	348	315	313	285
	Rate	184.2	178.8	169.1	171.8	167.2	185.6	163.7	161.9	150.9
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	108	151	114	135	142	115	153	188	169
	Deaths	22	13	25	21	20	22	15	29	23
	Rate	238.7	91.8	270.2	175.8	156.6	229.1	106.4	174.8	151.5
Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino	Patients	1,934	2,136	2,182	2,105	2,148	2,035	2,005	1,979	1,941
	Deaths	309	344	318	318	317	324	300	283	261
	Rate	182.6	184.3	164.5	171.6	167.3	182.7	169.1	160.4	150.4
Unknown	Patients	276	59	22	27	20	7	9	4	2
	Deaths	43	11	3	4	4	2	0	1	1
	Rate	174.6	222.3	144.8	164.7	239.3	*	*	*	*

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 3, 2004.

Includes patients transplanted during the year and having reported data one-year after transplant.

Time at risk covers the period from transplant date until the date of death or one-year anniversary of the transplant.

See Technical Notes for further details.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = For cohorts with fewer than 10 patients, rates are imprecise and are not reported.